By Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser, Judith Plaskow, David Shneer
Within the Jewish culture, interpreting of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a selected component assigned each one week. those weekly parts, learn aloud in synagogues around the globe, were topic to interpretation and observation for hundreds of years. Following in this historical culture, Torah Queeries brings jointly a few of the world’s best rabbis, students, and writers to interpret the Torah via a "bent lens". With commentaries at the fifty-four weekly Torah parts and 6 significant Jewish vacation trips, the concise but great writings accrued right here open up stimulating new insights and spotlight formerly overlooked perspectives.This awfully wealthy assortment unites the voices of lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and straight-allied writers, together with essentially the most significant figures in modern American Judaism. All deliver to the desk targeted equipment of analyzing and examining that let the Torah to talk to trendy matters of sexuality, id, gender, and LGBT existence. Torah Queeries bargains cultural critique, social statement, and a imaginative and prescient of group transformation, all performed via biblical interpretation. Written to have interaction readers, draw them in, and, every now and then, impress them, Torah Queeries examines subject matters as divergent because the Levitical sexual prohibitions, the adventure of the Exodus, the rape of Dinah, the lifetime of Joseph, and the ritual practices of the traditional Israelites. such a lot powerfully, the commentaries right here chart a way forward for inclusion and social justice deeply rooted within the Jewish textual tradition.A exertions of highbrow rigor, social justice, and private passions, Torah Queeries is a thrilling and critical contribution to the undertaking of democratizing Jewish groups, and an important consultant to figuring out the intersection of queerness and Jewishness.
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When a child transitions, “daughters” become “sons,” and a new covenantal relationship takes place. It is not just queers but also converts to Judaism, immigrants, and others who take on new names to reflect profound, new relationships. Within the context of queer and feminist discourse, these ritual, linguistic, and embodied (particularly with regard to reproduction and circumcision) manifestations of covenant hold many layers and meanings. Covenants imply power, a sign of one’s loyalty to the Divine, to other individuals, and to specific tribes or peoples.
It does not appear superficially that anything was done to Noah by Ham. Moreover, why is Canaan, Ham’s son, the one mentioned for punishment and not Ham himself? And lastly, why is the punishment a curse of enslavement? Here is how the rabbis of antiquity read this text: “And Ham saw”: Rav and Shmuel (disagreed). One said he castrated him and the other said he raped him. The one who claims that he castrated him explains in this way; that Ham thus prevented Noah from having a fourth son, which is why Ham’s fourth son, Canaan, is cursed.
2 For queer Jews, social change and ritual or spiritual practices are not mutually exclusive; nor do they exist in a political vacuum. So too was Abram and Sarai’s covenant with God, which both changed society by launching monotheism and began a historical narrative that climaxed at Sinai and fostered new forms of spiritual and ritual practice. Although there are many Jewish political activists who consider themselves secular Jews, and religious Jews who may not be political activists, certainly Lech Lecha teaches that the spirit and social action are inextricably linked.